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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 9 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 12, .929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY. * 5c A COPY!
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Leahy Must Die On
August 2 If Found
Sane, Governor Says
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AUSTIN, July 12.—(IP)—Harry J. Leahy, granted a sanity hearing
jesterday by District Judge Harry A. Dolan of Williamson county a few
hours before his scheduled execution at the state penitentiary, must die
August 2 if he is found sane at a trial set for July 22 at Georgetown,
Governor Moody ordered today.
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UN OUR I
VALLEY |
RIO GRANDE Potato Growers
association is seeking a loan of
$300,000 from the $150,000,000 farm
relief fund made available at the
last session of congress.
The fund, according to F. B.
Latham, president and general
manager of the organization will
be used exclusively to stabilize the
price of potatoes and to assure the
best possible return to Valley
growers.
The association has had a suc
cessful existence and has demon
strated the power of cooperation to
stabilize the market.
In the hands of the association
heads, this sum of money should
prove a powerful factor in selling
Valley spuds “at the top.”
• • •
During the early days of the sea
son just past the Valley potato
market became demoralized and
growers here were being offered
much less than potatoes were
bringing in other localities.
The blame was placed on growers
who were not members of the asso
ciation. It was said they had be
come panic stricken and were ac
cepting any price offered.
A warning was broadcast through
The Herald and by other means
that the price would improve if
offers below the market were re
fused.
Growers heeded the warning—the
price rose and continued to rise
until the close of the season.
A The last potatoes dug brought
the Dest-price—an unusual state of
affairs.
And everyone agrees it was
brought about by cooperation and
that it was a demonstration of the
power of the marketing association
to cope with emergencies.
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THE NEW WHITE KITCHEN—
Brownsville’s exclusive cafe—is to
open Saturday morning.
The location, on Twelfth street
Just around the comer from the
Travelers hotel and in the hotel
building, has been under prepara
tion for new tenant for more than
three months.
During all that time skilled
workmen have been busy providing
every known convenience for the
comfort and satisfaction of the
customers.
To begin with the old floor was
tom out and a tile floor installed.
Openings were cut in the north
wall to provide ventilation and
light. The walls and ceiling were
finished in a pleasing manner. Am
ple space was provided at the rear
for a thoroughly modem and effi
cient kitchen.
• • •
When this had been done the
work of installing the fixtures was
begun.
These fixtures include a “horse
shoe” counter and a number of
stools, tables, pastry’ case, coffee
um and all the usual restaurant
equipment.
But how different. The stools,
for instance, have leather seats,
comfortable backs and plenty of leg
room.
Huge ceilings fans placed close
together will agitate the air and
ample ventilation is provided by
i huge transoms.
Out in the kitchen there is an
enormous modem range as the cen
ter piece, and around this will be
arranged all the devices necessary
to a complete service. Over this
d**nain will reign James Baidas
chef who is known to patrons
of the old White Kitchen as “Jim.'
Out in front will be Jimmy Lotus
with his genial smile.
“White conveys the idea oi
cleanliness and light. Our place
will be both and cool besides,” says
Jimmie.
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AIR LINES operating from the
Brownsville municipal airport are
modem and the best obtainable—
but news from Germany indicates
there may be need for a change oi
equipment if that standard is
maintained.
A report comes from Friedrich
shafen of a hydroplane equipped
with 12 motors and a carrying ca
pacity of 45 tons. There are ac
commodations for 50 passengers
and a crew of ten. The motors will
develop 6000 horsepower and the
plane will have a cruising range of
6000 miles with a speed of 118 miles
per hour.
Passenger traffic by air through
Brownsville will have to grow con
siderably before such planes are
needed—but that time wlL come,
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S' The stay was granted by the gov
ernor after Judge Dolan issued a
mandate restraining the warden of
the penitentiary from carrying out
the execution.
Leahy escaped paying the penalty
on an affidavit of Miss Amanda
Davidson of Taylor, an acquain
tance, in which the woman stated
she believed the alleged slayer of
Dr. J. A. Ramsey, Mathis physician,
was insane.
SAY CREAGER
TO SUE PAPER
$1,000,000 Action Against
Collier’s Magazine Re
ported Planned
A rumor that suit for $1,000,000
will be filed against P. F. Collier
and Son company, New York City,
by R. B. Creager, republican na
tional committeeman from Texas
has been current in Brownsville
several days. Creager refuses either
to confirm or deny the report.
The suit, according to rumor, is
to be based upon the plea that the
Texas republican leader was libeled
in an article by Owen P. White en
titled “High-Handed and Hell
Bent,” which appeared in Colliers,
a weekly publication, on June 22.
Papers are being prepared and the
suit likely will be filed within the
next few days, according to reports.
It is said the publishers will be
asked to prove statements which
charge Creager with wrong doing
in connection with the primary elec
tion in Hidalgo county in July, 1928.
The article was an attack on po
litical methods allegedly used in Hi
dalgo county.
“I have nothing to say regarding
the possibility of the suit nor re
garding the article,” Creager de
clared Friday.
Sheriff A. Y. Baker of Hidalgo
county, on whom White centered his
attack in the Collier’s article, when
told over the telephone of the re
port that Creager would file the libel
suit, said he had heard nothing of
the matter. Sheriff Baker added
that he had reached no decision as
to what course he would pursue.
Crews Begin Repair
On Car Tracks With
U. S. Marshal Guards
NEW ORLEANS, July 12—(AP)
—Under shot gun guard of Unit
ed States marshals, gang crews
today began the repair of the
street car tracks and the re
moval of obstructions placed on
the rights of way by strikers pre
paratory to the operation of
street cars either tomorrow or
Sunday.
The strikers offered no inter
ference to the work, and the
federal marshal did not antici
pate any disorders when the cars
are started under the protection
of United States deputies and po
lice by authority of a federal in
junction. The city has been
quiet since the riots of last week
as the result of the starting of
a few cars operated by strike
breakers.
The negotiators for settlement
of the strike, now in its eleventh
day, continued conferences.
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SPRACHER WAS;
DUE HERE FROM
NORTHFR1DAY
Seriously Hurt After
1000-Ft. Drop; Was
Testing Out Plane
WHen Fall Occurred
Clyde Spracher, who was due in
Brownsville Friday on the regular
Texas Air Transport plane, was
seriously hurt Thursday when his
small biplane fell from an altitude
of 1,000 feet at Mecham Field,
Fort Worth.
The pilot, who was testing a new
plane on his off-day at the time
of the accident, was still uncon
scious Friday. He suffered head
injuries. Hospital attendants said,
there was no fracture of the skill
and they had discovered no inter
nal injuries.
Spracher is well known here as
he has been flying the air mail
for several months.
Wants Dem Chairman
Named By Committee,
Not By Party Choice
DALLAS, Tex., July 12.—(/P)—A
suggestion that th? chairman of the
democratic executive committee be
selected by members of that body,
and not by the party’s candidate for
president, as had always been done
before the last presidential cam
paign, was made here today by Jed
C. Adams, democratic national com
mitteeman for Texas.
If the committe should name its
chairman, the committeeman would
have the presidential candidate
name his own campaign chairman.
This chairman, when the campaign
was over, would resign, and would
not be mixed up with the party for- .
tunes during the four year interval
before the next election.
Funds Seized In
Raid Returned To
Mexican By Judge
NEW YORK, July 12.—t/P)—Sal
vador Ateca, wealthy Spaniard and
former paymaster for the Mexican
rebel army, today re reived $590,000
of the $770,000 cash and securities
seized last May 4 in a raid on Ateca’s
suite in the Hotel McAlpin.
The money was returned on or
der of Federal Judge Thomas H.
Thatcher after extradition to Mex
ico of Ateca and Antonio Maquero,
his secretary, had been refused by
U *S. Commissioner Francis A.
O’Neill. O’Neill held there was no
evidence to warrant the extradition
although Mexican government au
thorities had maintained he was
fleeing to Spain with the money,
which, thev said, had been illegally
obtained during the recent Mexican
revolution. ____
Judge Refuses Divorce
Suit On Plea of Child
CHICAGO, July 12.—(JP)—Little
Bennie Welzer's parents, Isaac
and Lea Welzer, came from Rus
sia 26 years ago and have citing
tenaciously to many old world
standards, but Bennie is an
American. Being an American,
he knows about divorces, and dis
approves of them.
A process server came to Ben
nie’s house a month ago with a
paper for Bennie’s father, a pa
per notifying him that Mrs. Wel
zer had started suit for divorce.
Bennie intercepted the summons.
He did not want his parents di
vorced.
The child noted the case was
to be called yesterday, so yester
day Bennie skipped school, slip
ping down to Judge Gemmill’s
courtroom and into a rear seat.
Pretty soon he saw his mother
take the witness stand. He heard
his mother say her husband had
beaten her and threatened her
with a pistol. He heard two
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other women corroborate the
story.
Judge Gemmill was on the
point of signing the decree when
he noted a little hand waving
frantically from the rear of the
courtroom. Bennie was trying to
attract the court’s attention as
he would the teacher’s at school.
Judge Gemmill called him for
ward.
“That’s my mother,” said Ben
nie. “She is not telling the
truth. My father is a kind man.
He does not know what she
is doing. I do not want her to
get a divorce.”
Judge Gemmill told Bennie to
run and get his father. On the
way from the building his moth
er seized him to punish him for
interfering. Ha returned soon with
his father, and told of being
beaten by his mother.
The judge refused the plea for
divorce and said he would send
Mrs. Welzer to jail for six months
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JOHN D. CUTS BIRTHDAY CAKE ]
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John D. Rockefeller,, “dean of world figures,” snapped cutting his
ninetieth birthday cake at his estate at Pocantico Rills, N. Y. His
physicians declare the nonagenarian will live to be 100.
Mission Man Held On
Murder Count Makes
No Move To Freedom
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, July 12.—Ephraim Deckard, former Mission poundkeeper,
held in jail here on a murder charge in connection with the fatal shoot
ing of Clyde Latham, former Donna city marshal, Friday afternoon faced
a two-month period of confinement, as Assistant District Attorney Rogers
Kellej) announced that the state will oppose strenuously all efforts to
make bond. • 1
Up to a late hour Friday Deckard
had made no move to gain freedom,
Kelley said, and had apparently not
selected an attorney. To obtain his
freedom Deckard must either file
a writ of habeas corpus or demand
an examining trial, Kelley said.
Either move will be opposed, the of
ficial said, on the contention that
the case is not bailable.
The grand jury meets in Sep
tember, and unless Deckard takes
some action to gain his freedom he
will be held until the jury acts on
the case.
Funeral services for Latham were
held at 5:30 p. m. Thursday from
Kreidler’s undertaking chapel In
McAllen. Rev. W. B. Pierce of the
First Baptist church of McAllen
officiated, and burial was in the
Valhalla cemetery. Latham is sur
vived by his father and mother, a
brother and sister, all of Fort Worth.
(Continued on page 9.)
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Rates by mail, daily and
Sunday:
One month,
in Texas .... 75c
One month,
out of Texas .,$1.00
One week,
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Order Arrest of
Three jChinese on
Opium Violation
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—(JP)
—Warrants for the arrest of Susie
Ying Kao, Ying Kao and Suen
Foon, charging them with facili
tating the transportation and con
cealment of a quantity of opium in
violation of the Jones-Miller act,
were issued from the United States
commissioner's office here today.
The warrants were sworn to by
John W. Smith, U. S. customs offi
cer, before Commissioner Ernest
Williams.
Kao was former vice consul here
and Susie Kao is his wife. Foon
is chancellor of the Chinese con
sulate.
Immediately after issuance of the
warrants, officers left to place the
three Chinese under arrest.
Donna Amendment
To Support Fire
Squad Is Voted
DONNA, July 12.—With only a
light vote being calt, no opposition
was indicated toward the proposed
charter amendment submitted to
the people Friday, proposing a one
mill tax to support a volunteer fire
department.
At 1 p. m. 34 votes had been cast.
CHICAGOAN WINS
MISSION HILLS, Kansas City,
July 12.—(/P)—Art Sweet of Chicago
ended the first 18 holes of his semi
final match in the Western Amateur
golf tournament here today one up
to Gilbert Carter of Nevada. Mo,
MERCHANT IS
HURT BY m
AND RUN CAR
Police Scour Valley
Seeking Driver Who
Struck Mercedes
Man Friday
(Special to The Herald)
* HARLINGEN, July 12.—While
Ben Nedenthal, 31, Mercedes mer
chant, was in the Valley Baptist
hospital here in a serious condition,
police in at least three Valley cities
weer hunting for the automobile
which struck Nedenthal’s car early
Friday and left him wrecked in the
ditch, pinned him beneath his auto
mobile.
Late Friday afternoon no report
of the automobile had been turned
in by officers in Harlingen. San
Benito and Brownsville, all of whom
were on the lookout for the car.
Nedenthal, trapped in the wreck
age of his automobile, lay in the
ditch almost an hour before released
by a bus driver, who brought him to
the hospital.
Nedenthal, who owns a store in
Mercedes, was on his way to Har
lingen to visit his father and moth
er, Mr. and Mrs. R. Nedenthal, who
own the New York Store here.
No clues as to the identity of the
driver are available. He struck the
Nedenthal car from the rear and
sped on. The wrecked car turned
over three or four times before
settling in the ditch.
The extent of Nedenthal’s injur
ies have not yet been determined.
Severe bruises and possible internal
injuries were suffered. No frac
tures were discovered by attending
surgeons.
Hope ‘Untin’ Bowler
May Clear Ice and
Resume Berlin Trip
CHICAGO, July 12—(/P)—With
reports last night from Port Bur
well, Labrador, of favorable flying
weather, the Chicago Trubune
hoped today that its amphibian,
the ‘Until’ Bowler, would be able
to escape the ice which menaced it
yesterday and resume its flight to
Berlin, which it started from here
on July 3.
The crew reported by radio that
floating ice in the Fjord where the
plane was anchored threatened to
destroy it ar.d that one jagged
piece, blown by the wind, had
caused slight damage. Eskimos,
mounted police, and the three
members of the crew kept a con
stant vigil to prevent further dam
age.
Biplane Angeleno
With Flyers Now
In Air 244 Hours
CULVER CITY, Calif., July 12.
—(AP)—The biplane “Angeleno”
reached the 244th hour .of its
record breaking endurance flight
at 11:29:30 a. m. today.
Governor C. C. Young of Cali
fornia arrived at the airport from
his summer home at Playa del
Rey to wave a greeting to the
fliers, L. W. Mendell and R. B.
Reinhart.
IDENTIFYROAD
VOTES IN SUIT
Witnesses Called to See
If Ballots Had Been
Tampered With
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, July 12.—Ex
amination of witnesses in the Lyford
$400,000 road bond election aautest
in Willacy County Civil District
Court was expected to be completed
Friday.
Contestants proved to the satis
faction of the court Thursday that
they had a prima facie case and the
ballot boxes were opened and found
to correspond with the report ren
dered by the election judges, 164 for
the bond issue and 67 against it.
After recess County Judge R. S,
Dorsett was placed on stand to tell
of the method of delivery of ballots
and the return and disposition of
unused ballots. He was followed by
County Clerk Ben S. Duffield who
was Interrogated as to where ballot
boxes had been stored since the elec
tion and the possibility of tampering
with them.
Eleven witnesses followed, who en
deavored to identify their ballots.
Many discrepancies arose between
their testimony and the way their
ballots showed they had voted.
Only one man was able to identify
his ballot. It was taken from the
mutilated ballot box. He was posi
tive It was his ballot, stating that he
recognized his handwriting. He said
he had scratched nothing on the
ticket at all, simply written “against”
at the bottom of the ballot.
Several others refused to claim
their ballots, saying they were word
ed differently, or they thought they
had marked out the "for” clause,
and the “against” appeared marked
out on the ballot accredited to them.
The ballot they voted on was
larger, or the placing of the caption
and the propositions different, some
witnesses said.
POWER WORKER KILLED
PLAINVIEW, Tex.. July 12.—(AP)—
Wheeler Whitsetff, 21. employe of
the Texas Utility Company, was
killed near here yesterday when a
wire he was handling came in con
tact with a power line._
Reporter Goes On Fast
Round Trip, Keeps Date
NEW YORK, July 12.—W—
Last Sunday night, which the
calendar says Was only a little
over four days ago—the city
editor of the New York office of
the * Associated Press said to one
of his reporters:
“I have a little assignment for
you, Bill* a run out of town.”
“Okay,” said the reporter,
“where to?”
“Los Angeles,” said the <jity
editor. . ..
“Have a heart, Boss,” said the
reporter, “I got a date next Fri
day I just can’t break.”
And so began the fastest round
trip between the Atlantic and
Pacific by a regular passenger
system in the history of trans
portation.
The reporter’s, assignment was
to go along on. the inaugural
journey of the Trans-Continental
Air Transport, the air-rail line
with which Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh is connected. He left
New York Sunday night, spent
Tuesday night in Los Angeles,
and was back in New York this
morning, four days and a half for
a journey of 5,714 mjlei,
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“Hello Bill,” said the city edi
tor. “Pretty soft for you. Reg
ular vacation. Let’s have a lit
tle story about it.”
“Have a heart, Boss,” said the
reporter. “Look here are some
notes I made along the way. Let
one of the boys put it in shape,
will you? I told you I got a date
today.”
The notes showed that the re
porter, with two plane loads of
other air-rail passengers, left
New York by train on the inau
gural journey of the T. A. T.
They took to the air at Columbus,
Ohio, Monday morning and flew
to Waynoke, Okla., that night
they entrained for Clovis, N. M.,
taking a plane there Tuesday
morning and arriving in Los An
geles that night, 48 hours after
leaving the Atlantic coast.
The only one of these passen
gers from New York to start right
back was the reporter, who left
Los Angeles Wednesday morning,
making the same plane and train
hops as on the way out and ar
riving here this morning.
The trip was without incident
of any kimL
CHUN HELD IS
FREED AFTER
YOUTH TALKS
Man Who Accompan
ied Them Charged
With Entering U. S.
Illegally
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 12.—A happy
hunting party which started out
late Thursday to shoot rabbits near
Combes neared a sorrowful ending
—perhaps the death of one—Friday.
Making a desperate fight to live,
with a .22 caliber bullet embedded
in his right lung, little Elias Guard -
iola, 12, son of a couple working with
a grubbing outfit, is in a critical
condition in the Valley Baptist hos
pital.
His chum, Jose Montalvo, son of
Norberto Montalvo, owner of a drug
store at Combes, after being re
leased from custody. Is at home
weeping and praying for the recov
ery of his pal who was shot acci
dentally when the two wrestled for
control of a hunting rifle.
Apolinar Casas, about 32, Is In
custody of immigration officers. He
was turned over to them by Deputy
Sheriff R. L. Longoria, who investi
gated the affair, and reported that
Casas had not entered the United
States legally. Casas is held for de
portation.
According to reports made to of
ficers, the three started out about
4:30 p. m. Thursday, the only one
carrying a gun being Casas. He
left the gun on the ground, it was
said ,and went to get a rabbit which
he had shot on the other side of a
clump of bushes.
While he was gone the two boys
reached for the rifle and in the
tussle to obtain it, the weapon was
discharged and a bullet entered
young Guardiola’s nght chest.
During a short period of con
sciousness early Friday morning, the
Guardiola boy made a statement
exonerating his companions of all
blame.
Young Montalvo had been held
for questioning, but was released as
soon as the other boy made his
statement.
Physicians held little hupe for re
covery of the lad Friday afternoon.
WACO WOMAN KILLED
WHEN STRUCK BY CAR
WACO, Texas, July 12.—(A3)—
Mrs. R. F. Martin, 22, Waco, was
dead today, and her husband was
recovering, from injuries received
here last night when struck by a
Dallas automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin were cross
ing the street as the machine ap
proached a crossing at which auto
mobiles were supposed to halt. It
was reported to police the Dallas
car, probably unfamiliar with Waco
street and traffic signs, ran through
a “boulevard stop” sign.
A Dallas mother with her baby
in her arms was driving the auto
mobile, and neither was hurt.
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For Brownsville and the Valley.
Partly cloudy'to unsettled tonight
and Saturday with local showers.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Saturday; scattered
showers in the south portion.
Light to moderate east to south
winds.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fall
slowly during the next few days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.5 +0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 —0.7 -0.2 .00
Rio Grande . 21 5.0 +0.1 .00
Mission. 22 5.5 -0.3 .08
San Benito . 23 9.4 0.0 .03
Brownsville • 18 4.8 -0.5 .26
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High.8:49 a. m.; 11:52 p. m.
Low.2:52 a. m.; 4:18 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today. 7:28
[Sunrise tomorrow .5:46
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